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title: The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2026
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  title: The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2026
  url: >-
    https://www.artbasel.com/stories/the-art-basel-and-ubs-global-art-market-report-2026?lang=en
  source: Art Basel / UBS
  consumed: '2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z'
  note: >-
    The 2026 report puts 2025 global art market sales at $59.6B, up 4%
    year-on-year after two years of declining values, with uneven recovery and
    continuing recalibration.
  tags:
    - art
    - markets
    - investing
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  summary: >-
    The 2026 Art Basel/UBS report provides the market backdrop: art remains a
    large asset and collecting market, but one that is uneven, status-sensitive,
    and periodically hungry for new categories of conviction.
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The 2026 Art Basel/UBS report provides the market backdrop: art remains a large asset and collecting market, but one that is uneven, status-sensitive, and periodically hungry for new categories of conviction.

For a prediction about Art Brut becoming an investment target, the relevant premise is that collectors and dealers already operate inside a market capable of rotating attention, pricing narratives, and liquidity toward newly legible categories.